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The Conscious Company Global Leaders Forum

Janet Fouts

The goal of this conference wasn’t just to listen to the speakers and absorb their wisdom by osmosis, though that certainly happened. Mike Brady CEO of Greyston Bakery , a benefit corp and social enterprise bakery in Pennsylvania, practices the collaborative approach to hiring. What did we learn? They call it “Open Hiring™”.

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Bubble or No Bubble, We’ll Still Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

I posed this question to one of the breed recently at a conference. “Of course, we know this social-media-is-cool phenomenon makes big, bulky, white-elephant-ish corporations go tingly in their eyes. A staunch Seth Godin disciple, he is engaged with social enterprise development and its intersection with social web.

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I Didn’t Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong

Social Media Strategery

I’ve written before about the need to start talking about failures at conferences so that others may learn, so that’s why I was excited to attend Kevin Jones ‘ presentation, “Enterprise 2.0 Failures – And What We Learn From Them,&# yesterday at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference here in Boston.

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Climate Change, Poverty and The Great Horse Poo Debate of 1898

Laurel Papworth

Because the first international inter-urban planning conference was held in New York in 1894, bringing together world leaders and problem solvers. If major cities were going to be, in 50 years, under nine feet of manure the conference attendees believed that the world was in major …. Will the problem simply go away?

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 conference. Enterprise Wiki. International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 is underway here in Italy, and I presented “Cultivating wikis to change the enterprise and improve the bottom line&# this morning. Social Enterprise: Interview with 7thFloor Magazine.

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"Will Social Media Change Our Behavior?"

Diva Marketing Blog

social media conference - Connect. In it's 3rd year, Prof Karen Russell brings together Public Relations students, academics and professionals working in social media. . I had the privilege of sharing a panel with the ever controversial, but always smart, Jeremy Pepper on Integrating Social Media in Business and Industry.

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Beware! The Social Media Dog Strategy Mentality

Diva Marketing Blog

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at a conference, sponsored by Connuntelligence, about how to build a social media strategy. I presented a 3 phase model that might be helpful to you as you build your social media strategy. . Step 1: Align the Enterprise. Develop the Social Enterprise .